Quotes about ignorance

"Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot."

Proverb, Haitian on ignorance   

"Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects."

Rogers, Will on ignorance
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"Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education."

Russell, Bertrand on ignorance
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"There is no darkness, but ignorance."

Shakespeare, William on ignorance
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"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything."

Smith, Sydney on ignorance
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"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation."

Paley, William on ignorance   

"The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self."

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de) on ignorance   

"Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it."

Syrus, Publilius on ignorance   

"Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved."

Thucydides on ignorance
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"Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind."

Tillotson, John on ignorance   

"I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it."

Twain, Mark on ignorance
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"When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."

Twain, Mark on ignorance
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"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."

Unknown, Source on ignorance   

"In the battle for survival the ignorant man has a considerable advantage."

Unknown, Source on ignorance   

"Never forget public ignorance is the government's best friend."

Unknown, Source on ignorance
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"Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance."

Unknown, Source on ignorance   

"If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people jumping up and down for joy."

Unknown, Source on ignorance   

"Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone."

Wilde, Oscar on ignorance
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"Most ignorance is invincible ignorance.We don't know because we don't want to know."

Huxley, Aldous on ignorance   

"O, but man, proud man! Drest in a little brief authority; Most ingorant of what he's most assur'd, His glassy essence,-like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep;"

Shakespeare, William on ignorance
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"The fact of ignoring your duties does erase neither the responsibility nor accountability off your head...not for a single moment."

Jhurry Muhummad Anas on ignorance   

"Ignoring a fact never fades away its reality."

Jhurry Muhummad Anas on ignorance   

"Our true enemies are: ignorance and limitation."

Bonta, Vanna on ignorance   

"Own your ignorance, so someone else doesn't end up paying for it."

Trean, A. Brandon on ignorance